An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1859

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G. C. Rand & Avery, City printers, 1859 - 125 páginas

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Página 113 - Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : the strength of the hills is his also.
Página 113 - For the Lord is a great God : and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also.
Página 72 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Página 55 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.
Página 58 - Missouri referred to, that it is now firmly settled by the decisions of the highest court in the state, that Scott and his family upon their return were not free, but were by the laws of Missouri the property of the defendant...
Página 56 - Precisely as the humblest Justice of the Peace would do. The debates in the Federal Convention show the exact meaning attached to the words of the Constitution, extending the judicial power of the United States to " all cases arising under the constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States.
Página 113 - O come let us worship and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is the Lord our God : and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Página 55 - An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unanimous, and with the silent acquiescence of lazy or timid associates, by a crafty chief judge, who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning.
Página 113 - O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth stand in awe of him. For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth; and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth.
Página 61 - A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a "citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States.

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